Show Me a Peace Corps Volunteer

*This week, I’m honored and proud to collaborate on this post with Matt Young of Fishing in Zambia Blog, one of the best Peace Corps blogs on the world wide web. Check out his blog, and this week let us show you a Peace Corps volunteer.*

Show me a Peace Corps volunteer and I’ll show you people of all colors, ages, and creeds. I’ll show you men and women and people who are sitting in between. I’ll show you daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers, all of whom have left those families to find new ones across the world.

Show me a Peace Corps volunteer and I’ll show you someone who knows illness, misery, cold, heat, and crawling infestations of a thousand varieties. I’ll show you someone who has become intimate with infection, friendly with fungus, and can compare the viscosity of fecal matter over a meal. I’ll show…